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[–] 32 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is a great explanation!

But I do have to say, you darn kids with your fancy newfangled PS/2 input.. in my days we had proper serial or DIN ports!

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I saw a computer with a parallel port at work the other day.

    No idea why it had it, it also had a couple blue USB3 ports. Also VGA and HDMI, and a bicolour PS/2. Damn weird mainboard.

    Zoomer intern was wondering what it was and I got to tell him about parallel and serial and all that. Made me feel nostalgic. And old.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    "Work" computers will often have legacy ports because maybe you need it to connect to some old printer.

    There are a lot of places still using old-style dot matrix printers or other weird old hardware. Point-of-sale systems made to this day often come with a bunch of serial, or not quite serial, ports.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe it was even a 25 pin delta serial? or an external scsi port? Sounds damn peculiar indeed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No, it's been a while since I last saw a SCSI connector of any kind, and I don't think I've ever seen a 25 pin serial (my first PC did have the 15 pin game port, though, if I recall correctly); this one was a plain old parallel port, though. Even had a small drawing of a printer on top of it on the i/o shield.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I recently saw a picture of a SCSI connector when looking for PCIe - SATA cards.

    Apparently most normal PCIe - SATA cards are very unreliable (somehow even worse than USB to SATA adapters), so I went on looking for the SCSI ones that have been reviewed as more reliable.

    P.S. If anyone knows about a (non-RAID) PCIe - SATA card that I can rely upon as much as my motherboard SATA controller, then do tell.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    OMG, that reminds of one of my first little hobby projects. Using a serial port to light up an LED whenever I had a new notification on... good grief was it Myspace or Facebook back then? Around that transition period at any rate.

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